World records in swimming

The list of swimming records. Please, use the filter below to narrow the result set.

Freestyle

DistanceValueDateSwimmerMeet
400 m03:4007Jul 26, 2009Paul Biedermann
Germany
2009 World Championships
Rome, Italy
200 m01:4200Jul 28, 2009Paul Biedermann
Germany
2009 World Championships
Rome, Italy
800 m07:3212Jul 29, 2009Zhang Lin
China
2009 World Championships
Rome, Italy
100 m4691Jul 30, 2009César Cielo
Brazil
2009 World Championships
Rome, Italy
50 m2091Dec 18, 2009César Cielo
Brazil
2009 Brazil Championships
São Paulo, Brazil
1500 m14:3102Aug 4, 2012Sun Yang
China
2012 Olympic Games
London, United Kingdom

Backstroke

DistanceValueDateSwimmerMeet
200 m01:5192Jul 31, 2009Aaron Peirsol
United States
2009 World Championships
Rome, Italy
100 m5185Aug 13, 2016Ryan Murphy
United States
2016 Olympic Games
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
50 m2380May 18, 2021Kliment Kolesnikov
Russia
2021 European Championships
Budapest, Hungary

Breaststroke

DistanceValueDateSwimmerMeet
50 m2595Jul 25, 2017Adam Peaty
United Kingdom
2017 World Championships
Budapest, Hungary
100 m5688Jul 21, 2019Adam Peaty
United Kingdom
2019 World Championships
Gwangju, South Korea
200 m2:0612Jul 26, 2019Anton Chupkov
Russia
2019 World Championships
Gwangju, South Korea

Butterfly

DistanceValueDateSwimmerMeet
50 m2227Jul 1, 2018Andrii Govorov
Ukraine
2018 SETTE COLLI TROPHY
Rome, Italy
200 m1:5073Jul 24, 2019Kristóf Milák
Hungary
2019 World Championships
Gwangju, South Korea
100 m4945Jul 31, 2021Caeleb Dressel
United States
2021 Olympic Games
Tokyo, Japan

Individual Medley

DistanceValueDateSwimmerMeet
400 m04:0384Aug 10, 2008Michael Phelps
United States
2008 Olympic Games
Beijing, China
200 m01:5400Jul 28, 2011Ryan Lochte
United States
2011 World Championships
Shanghai, China
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